Repairer and sealer.



E. JOHNSON REPMRER AND SEALER.

APPLICATION HLED um. 13. 911

Patented Oct. 30,1911.

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ELEANOR JOHNSON, 0F CENTRALIA, WASHINGTON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 30, 31917.

Application filed January 13, 1917. Serial No. 142,157.

To aZZ whom z't may concern:

Be" it known that I, ELEANOR JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Centralia, in the county of Lewis and State of /"ashington, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Repairers and repairing the covers after they have once been used and removed from the jars, thus rendering it possibleto use the covers several times.

Another object of this invention is to provide means for forcing the bulge out of the cover which is caused by accumulation of gas within the jar, thus making it easy to remove the cover from the jar.

A further object of this invention is to provide a cover engaging member having handles, one of which Hcarries'a set bolt for engaging the lip of a cover, whereby upon rotating the cover engaging member freely upon the cover, the set bolt will straighten the lip of the cover so asto forman airtight connection between the ar and the cover.

A'still further object of this invention is the provision of a repairer and sealer vof the above stated character, which shall be simple, durableand efficient, and which may be manufactured and sold at acomparatively low cost.

With these and other objects in view as will become more. apparent as the descrip-- tion proceeds, the invention consists in cer tain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

F or a complete understandingof my invention, reference will be had to the following description and ings, in which; H

Figure 1 1s a perspective view of a reaccompanying drawpairer and sealer constructed in accordance with my invention,

Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same illustrating the repairer jar cover.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates a substantially circular cover engaging member constructed from a substantially heavy gage wire. The wire is first bent to form the substantially circular cover engaging member and one end there- I of is bent to form a'pair of relatively spaced bars 2, which format handle 3. The end or the wire arter constructing the outermost bar of the handle 3 is looped about the other bar as illustrated at 4 and has its free end bent to form a catch 5.

The other end of the wireafter forming the cover engaging member 1 is'then bent to form'oppositely directed loops 6 and 7. The wire after forming the loop 7 is bent to and sealer applied to aform a pair of relatively spaced and parallel extending bars 'Vwhich form a handle 8. After the wire has formed the handle 8, it ispassed through the loop 6 and about the loop 7 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 andv is bent to extend across the cover-engaging member as illustrated at 9 to form an arm. lhe end of the arm is bent to form a hook lOfor engaging the cover engaging member 1.- The arm 9 1s ofiset downwardly as illustrated at 10 for an engagement with the top of a jar cover 11 as'illustrated in Fig. 2 and which is secured to 'a jar 12 in the usual manner or by screwthreads as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2. The cover 11 is provided with the usual lip 13 for engaging the rubber gasket let employedv upon jars of this type to establish an air tight connection between the cover and the jar.

In operation, the cover engaging member 1 is placed about the cover as illustrated in Fig. 2 permitting the arm 9 to overlie the same and by moving the handles 3 and 8,

in the direction of each other, the member 1 will tightly grip-the cover 11 whereby the cover may be turned off or on the jar 12 as desired. If there has been an accumulation of gas within the jar 12, it will cause the top of the cover to bulge, thus contracting the cover upon the jar making it very diilicult to remove. To remove the bulge within the'top of the cover caused by the-'accumulationof gas within the jar12, the hook 9 is fastened to the member 1 and byrotating the member 1 freely upon the cover 11 with a slightly downward pressure thereon,

the bulge within the cover will be depressed,

A threaded bearing 15 is secured within the loop 7 and has threaded thereto a set bolt 16 having a handle 17 on one end and its opposite end pointed as illustrated at 18.

It has been the practice when the cover 11 becomes swollen'or snugly fits the jar 12 to insert a knife or like instrument under the gasket is so as to permit gas to escape from within the jar so as to render it possible to remove the cover from the jar, and by so doing, the lip 13 has been bent out of shape rendering the cover useless the second time,owing to the fact that if the lip 13 is bent out of shape, it will not seat properly upon the gasket 14:, thereby preventing a leakage between the cover and the jar. To render the cover again useful, the member 1 is placed upon the cover as illustrated in Fig- 2 and the set bolt 16 is threaded within the bearing 15 until the pointed end 18 engages the lip. 13 and by rotating the member 1 upon the cover 11, the set bolt 16 will travel about the lip 13 and straighten the same of any defects or bends that may be therein, thus rendering the cover of use for several times upon a jar.

The catch 5 upon the end of the wire which constructs the handle 3 engages the innermost bar 7 of the handle 8, whereby the handles are prevented from spreading over a given distance, whereby the member 1 is permitted to expand suliiciently to receive the cover, thus obviating the necessity of gripping both of the handles at one time, when desiring to rotate the member 1 upon the cover to either straighten the lip 13 or remove bulges from the top of the cover.

In canning preserves or fruit while in a hot condition, it has been found difficult sometimes to obtain an air-tight sealbetween the cover and the jar, even when new covers are used and by placing the cover engaging member about the cover and screwing down the adjusting bolt until it engages the lip of the cover and by rotating the handles and cover engaging member upon the cover, the lip will be straightened out upon the gasket between the cover and the jar, thus establishing an air-tight connection.

While 1 have shown and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

COVGI 2.. A device of the character set forth comprising a cover-engaging member, handles formed on said member, and a curved arm for removing the bulge from the top of a jar-cover.

3. A device of the character set'forth com prising a j ar-engaging member, handles formed on said jar engaging member to cause the member to grip a jar cover,and

a bolt adjustably carried by one of the han-.

dles for. engagement with the lip of the cover to straighten the same.

t. A device of the character set forth com-,

prising a cover-engaging member, handles formed on the cover engagingmember for causing the member to grip a cover, a threaded bearing carried: by one ofsaid handles, and an adjusting bolt threaded to the bearing andadapted to engage the lip of a cover to straighten the same. a

5. A. device of the character set forth comprising a cover-engaging member, handles formed on the cover-engaging member for causing the member to grip a cover, and an arm carried, by one of the handles and adapted to overlie the cover of a jar and engage the cover-engaging member to remove bulges from the cover upon rotation of said cover engaging'member, I

6. A device of the character set forth comprising a cover-engaging member, handles carried by said cover-engaging member, and an arm formed on one of the handles and having its ends bent to engage the coverengaging member, and said arm being ofiset to remove the bulges from the cover upon rotating the cover-engaging. member upon the cover.

7. A device of the character set forth comprising a single length of wire being first bent to form a substantially circular coverengaging member, the ends of the wire after forming the cover-engaging member being bent to form a pair of handles, one end of the wire after forming one of the handles being looped about itself and bent toform a hook to engage the other. handle, andthe other end of the wire after forming the other handle being bent to form an arm for removing the bulge from a cover and having its free end bent to form a hook for engagement with the cover engaging member.

8.13. device of the character set forth comprising a single length of wire first bent to form a cover-engaging member, one end of said wire being bent to form a handle, the

other end of said wire being bent to form a pair of oppositely directed loops, said Wire after being bent to form the loop being bent to form a handle, the end of the wire after forming the last mentioned handle being bentto extend through one of the loops and about the other loop at right ongles thereto to form an arm for overlying the cover-engaging member, and having its Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. I 

